Martin Luther College

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable--a...

Drawn from the latest research, this fascinating book offers new insight about how the brain ages; provides strategies for promoting brain health; reveals how aging people can still achieve new levels of intelligence and learn new skiles and more.

Profiles recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and how they are being applied to numerous aspects of daily life from law enforcement and economics to artistic expression and religious beliefs, in an insider's report that cites the potential of emerging innovations.

Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning - a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things - from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer's backhand to things that don't exist at...

Students are becoming more academically and culturally diverse, making it more important than ever to shift away from a one-size-fits-all approach and toward differentiated instruction. The second edition of this best-selling book will help you create truly effective, brain-friendly classrooms for all learners. The authors share an array of updated differentiated instruction examples, scenarios, and exercises, as well as the latest educational psychology...

Includes information on Alzheimer's disease, beliefs and believing, children, computer technology, drug enhancements of the brain, drug use and abuse, elderly persons, embryos, emotion, evolution, free will, genetics, brain hemispheres, intelligence, lying and lie detection, memory, religious factors, stem cell research time factors, etc.